1. 24:4 America Moves Toward War

2. Cash and Carry FDR amends Neutrality acts 1939 Isolationism?
“all aid short of war”

3. Tripartite Pact/Axis Powers
Germany Italy Japan
Berlin

4. Mobilization in the U.S. Defense spending
FDR signing the Selective Service Act
Defense spending
First peacetime military draft
Selective Training and Service Act

5. 1940 Election 3rd Term
Wendell Wilkie

6. 1941 Lend Lease Plan Great Arsenal of Democracy
$50 billion: GB, FR, USSR, China
Lend Lease Aid to Soviet Union?? “the enemy of my enemy is my friend”

7. German Wolf Packs U-boats attack Lend Lease shipments
U.S. attack in self defense
Sonar, radar helped

8. Atlantic Charter Churchill wants military support!
Gets Declaration of war aims
Collective security
Disarmament
Self determination
Economic cooperation
Freedom of the seas
USS Augusta

9. Wilson’s 14 points Told ya so!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No secret treaties
Freedom of the seas
Free trade
Demilitarization
Self determination
League of nations

10. Allies 26 nations: militarily and economically U.S. Great Britain
France?????
USSR

11. 1941 Undeclared Naval War U.S. v. Germany
Germans loading a torpedo onto a u-boat
“When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you crush him”
Armed merchant ships
Shoot U-boats on sight

12. Hideki Tojo & Emperer Hirohito
Japanese expansion in Asia
U.S. embargo
Oil

14. Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941 “A day that will live in infamy”
Largest U.S. naval base in Pacific
2 waves : 7:55 am, 8:55 am
2,403 lives, 1,178 wounded, 21 ships damaged, 300 airplanes destroyed

16. USS VA

17. USS Shaw

18. USS Arizona Memorial

19. America Enters WWII U.S. declares war on Japan
Germany and Italy declare war on the U.S.
Isolationists: “The only thing now to do is to lick the hell out of them”
FDR signing the declartion of war